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Saab’s aviation link

... aviation link the Bavarian compan{s aircraft origins. It was building aeroplane engines to the satisfaction of the Red Baron (von Richthofen) and powerh;g successive tions of Fokker planes filore high?erformance .cars became its main preoccupation. German ...

Published: Friday 01 February 1985
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 134 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

DAVID MERCER

... catch-as-catchcan against the Hun, sometimes to the audible cheers of the troops massed below. The legendary Red Baron — Manfred von Richthofen — is seen a: a cold~blood’e:lmliull§r. devoid of imagination the possessor of a particularlv. nasty sense of ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1978
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

thursday

... visiting Robert Gordon's Univer Ss LONDON — State opening of Parliament. LONDON — Phillips to sell plane in which “Red Baron” von . Richthofen was shot down. State opening of LONDON — First consignment of Beaujolais Nouveau via Channel Tunnel. vision results ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1994
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

Old ‘Red

... ace was a German. Dubbed “The Red Baron, von Richthofen was personally credited with shooting down 80 enemy aircraft, all British except for a lone Belgian. His red Fokker monoplane led what was known as “Richthofen’s Flying Circus”, a familiar and ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1989
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

7.30 CARTOON TWO

... a walled garden is restored and worked it was 100 years ago. 8.10 TIMEWATCH Two men behind their myths. The Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, the pilot who died in 1918. And, 700 years earlier, William Marshal, England’s greatest medieval knight, who ...

Published: Wednesday 11 November 1987
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BBC-2

... which a walled garden is restored and worked as it was 100 years ago. Timewatch. Two men behind their myths; The Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, the air pilot who died in 1918, and 700 years earlier, William Marshal, England’s greatest medieval knight, ...

Published: Wednesday 11 November 1987
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 216 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Makers of famous aircraft taken over

... was the biggest supplier of planes to the RAF. One of the 6000 Camels is credited with having shot down the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen. In the Second World War, the Hawker Hurricane claimed more victories over enemy aircraft in the Battle of Britain ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1991
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 261 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Sopwith Pup will lead 100th birthday tribute to its creator

... the Camel. The Camel gained a legendary reputation, one flown by Roy Brown being responsible for shooting down the Red Baron, von Richthofen. After the war Sopwith liquidated his company, only to torm a new partnership with Harry Hawker. By the time of the ...

Published: Monday 18 January 1988
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 563 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Fighter £90,000 ace's V.C. raises for children

... had seemed impregnable. Lt. Robinson was shot down in France while attacking a group of aircraft led by the Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen in 1917. He was taken prisoner and made several attempts to escape. After the armistice he was sent back to England ...

Published: Wednesday 23 November 1988
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 283 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

risk as plane legend down in Amsterdam

... pre-World War I Germany. The German World War I pilots of its triplanes and biplanes included the legendary “Red Baron’’ Manfred von Richthofen. But the company could not win the economic dogfight that has bit the aerospace industry since the mid 1980’s ...

Published: Tuesday 23 January 1996
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 404 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

) East Kilbride News Friday March 20 1987 29 WEDNESDAY (March 25) is the anniversary of the shooting down by

... ) East Kilbride News Friday March 20 1987 29 WEDNESDAY (March 25) is the anniversary of the shooting down by the “Red Baron Richthofen of a young Stratbaven fighter pilot 2nd Lieutenant Donald Cameron 1918 He was 18 years and 10 months old Kilbride Library’s ...

Published: Friday 20 March 1987
Newspaper: East Kilbride News
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2087 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

7.30 CARTOON TWO

... Another look at August in the garden. 8.10 TIMEWATCH The programme looks at two men behind their myths: the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, the air pilot who died in 1918, and, 700 years earlier, William Marshal. England’s greatest medieval knight ...

Published: Wednesday 11 November 1987
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 415 | Page: 4 | Tags: none